14 best organization books

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You've organized your bookshelf and your pantry. Now it's time to organize EVERYTHING ELSE: for your wellness, work, pets, kids, travel, and more.

Organization is not just for minimalists. With The Home Edit Life you can stop feeling guilty about owning things and finally find a system that works for your lifestyle.

Are you a Clea or a Joanna? Get to know your personality and how it affects your organizing style. Learn how to make your system work for the rest of your family, too!

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The Book That Started It All

The inspiration for the Netflix series Get Organized with The Home Edit.

Organize By Example

Clea and Joanna take you through their own process by detailing more than 150 spaces with their trade secrets. With bright images that feature almost every kind of space—small or large—including pantries, fridges, closets, bathrooms, bedrooms, playrooms, and under the stairs and sink, you’ll take away so many ideas for your own rooms.

Discover The 'Low-bar Lifestyle'

Clea and Joanna show you how to accomplish just about anything—including a meticulously arranged home. The key is starting with something achievable so that you succeed. Learn which space you should approach first so you stay motivated to finish the whole house (hint: it’s not a room); what storage items you need and how much to buy; and how you can get the whole family to pitch in—even the kids!

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A Crash Course in Tidying-Up

Over 100 beautifully designed organizational tools that will help you declutter and organize your entire life. Combining a Household Management Binder, Financial Planning Workbook, Meal Planning Binder, Travel Planner, Daily Planner, Goal Tracker, Health and Fitness Workbook, Medical Information Binder, and so much more into one incredibly life-changing book.

Live a more organized life without having to give up your sanity.

In Cluttered Mess to Organized Success you will get:

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How to Use this Book

This volume is divided into two distinct sections: Part I, “Organizing for the Disorganized,” outlines my ADHD-friendly organizing methodology, so you can apply it to your home, your schedule, and your life. It discusses the precepts and myths of good organization, and the reasons why some organizational strategies may be suitable for one individual with ADHD, while others are disastrous. Part II, “Individual Projects,” is arranged by room or project and consists of common, real-life organizing problems faced by my ADHD clients and the solutions to those problems. These have been limited to mostly small-scale organizing tasks that won’t overwhelm.

Once you have finished reading Part I, feel free to flip ahead and find an organizational project that suits your needs. With each project you complete, my hope is that you’ll have gained enough confidence in your organizing abilities to tackle yet another task until you’re well on your way to a happy, harmonious, and more organized life.

The Rules of Organizing

1. Inventory (i.e., your “stuff”) must conform to storage. In the ADHD home especially, inventory MUST NOT fill storage.
2. Make your things easy to access and easier to put away. In the ADHD home, ease of stowage takes precedence over ease of retrieval.
3. Only touch (or sort) it once. For example, sort or toss mail as soon as you open it; don’t add it to a pile you’ll have to sort again later.
4. Duplicate where necessary to store things where you use them.
5. Eliminate items that unnecessarily duplicate functions (e.g., handpowered can opener or electric can opener, not both).
6. Name your cabinets and shelves (dish cabinet, sock drawer, etc.) to remind yourself that only those items are stored therein.
7. Make sure the “rough storage” areas in your home are well lit and easily accessible.

Here are some of the tricks that make this an ADHD-friendly work space:

• Stationery essentials fit together in one drawer—it’s inefficient to both manage a large inventory and wander the house hunting down supplies.
• Retractable pens eliminate the distraction of playing with caps.
• Randomly colored folders (not to be confused with color-coded folders) act as a quick visual reminder for finding papers.
• Stackable trays allow you to file without opening a drawer and hunting down a folder.
• A handy wastebasket encourages you to throw out garbage the minute you are done with it.
• A deep recycling basket encourages you to throw out those questionable papers that might be garbage, because you know you can retrieve them anytime over the several months it takes to fill the bin up.
• No decorative items clutter the desktop where they would ambush efficiency. The space is attractive because is it functional and organized. Attractive wall colors, nice furniture, and wall hangings provide aesthetic appeal without ambushing efficiency.

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An interactive journal designed to help you declutter through mindfulness and self-motivation.

The Declutter Challenge enables you to work through both the emotion and the physical clutter in your life; to explore your thoughts and feelings about your belongings and discover the knowledge and strength to let go of excess.

The life-changing guided journal.

learn how to navigate the chaos of clutter by taking the time to understand yourself and the underlying meaning behind your clutter. Filled with inspiration and open-ended questions, The Declutter Challenge journal will guide you onto the path to a clean and clutter-free home.

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